Giving to those around us Is as simple as can be. If you go the extra mile and trust, And do so joyfully. Spend time with those around you, Within ...
Read More »How to Teach Science in Your Daily Life – Part 2
by Kenneth J. Stein, Ph.D. Some time ago, we taught our 10-year-old daughter how nature recycles water through the water cycle. I explained to her that this means all water, ...
Read More »5 Days ‘Til Christmas!
From Clare Schmitt Happy Tuesday! Only 5 more days until Christmas! I guess I was a little over-excited when I said 5 days yesterday. It was 5 days until Christmas ...
Read More »Two Weeks Left!
by Clare Schmitt Can you believe we only have two weeks left until Christmas? I think children give us a whole new perspective on Advent, on the preparation for the ...
Read More »Traditional Family Values
The following is a talk given by 18-year-old Moriah Mosher, daughter of Population Research Institute president Steven Mosher, to the Rhodes Youth Forum in Greece. Good afternoon, everyone! I want ...
Read More »How to Teach Science in Your Daily Life: Part 1
By Kenneth J. Stein, Ph.D. What could possibly be more fun than teaching science? Indeed, you have an entire Creation to work with! If you accept that all parts of ...
Read More »Channels of Grace
Parents are ordinarily the primary channels of grace for their children. This primacy as channels of grace for the children comes through the sacrament of Matrimony. The sacrament confers two ...
Read More »Help? You got it!
Question from a Seton Mom: What do those homeschooling moms out there with both school-age children and toddlers do to keep the little ones occupied? I have a child in ...
Read More »Freedom in the Lord
by Clare Schmitt Yoke yourself under the law of God, so that you may be in truth a free man. ~ St. Ephraem the Syrian For most of you, two ...
Read More »Keep the Faith!
by Clare Schmitt “To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living, but existing.” ~ Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati You’ve ...
Read More »Homeschooled High Schoolers in College: Recipe for Failure?
Dr. Clark, I hope you don’t mind that I’m emailing you directly, but I wanted to reach out to you, as head of Seton, to tell you a little bit ...
Read More »Cultural Heroes
The following is a brief part of a speech the late Dr. William Marra gave in Toronto in 1993. In homeschooling, aim at a certain academic excellence. I claim that ...
Read More »Happy All Saints’ Day!
by Clare Schmitt Every Christian must be a living book in which others can read the teaching of the Gospel. ~ St. Joseph of Leonessa October is over – how ...
Read More »Monday, Monday, so Good to Me
by Draper Warren “Monday, Monday, so good to me”… Start the week with a positive attitude and remember we have the greatest assistance we could possibly want: “The Helper, the ...
Read More »Praise God for the Wonderful Days
by Draper Warren Parent to Parent tip of the week: “Praise God for the wonderful days when your child has finally gotten through his letters without any errors, the house ...
Read More »Enjoy your kids. Be open to learning yourself. And relax.
by Draper Warren Parent to Parent tip of the week: Enjoy your kids. Be open to learning yourself. And relax.” Note: these tips are FROM parents TO parents. We did ...
Read More »Let the Little Children Come to Me
by Draper Warren Happy Monday! We hope you all had a wonderfully relaxing weekend. As you begin your school week, remember that when you are educating your children you are ...
Read More »The Cardinal Virtues
by Father Charles C. Fiore Every Catholic knows the primacy of love in the Christian life. Jesus’ words (Mt. 19:19 and 22:37) about love of God and love of one’s ...
Read More »The Beatitudes
by Rev. Robert Skeris The Gospel of the Eight Beatitudes is surely one of the best beloved passages in all of Holy Writ, and deservedly so. For the fact is ...
Read More »Truth in Fiction: Home Schooling and Christian Literature
I have been honored and privileged over the past few years to speak at homeschool conferences across the United States and Canada. The key element in all of my talks, and the theme that binds them together, is that Western Civilization is a specifically Christian inheritance that it is the duty of parents to pass on to their children.
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